My friend and colleague Molly Tuby, who has died aged 94, was one of the last Jungian analysts in the UK to have known Carl Jung personally, having attended the CG Jung Institute in Zurich in the 1950s, when the psychologist was still active there.

Growing up in a wealthy Jewish family in the cosmopolitan society of Alexandria, Molly enjoyed a privileged youth and a warm family environment full of music. The second world war brought more brutal realities, and she enlisted as a nurse with the Voluntary Aid Detachment, tending wounded British soldiers in a field hospital.

After a disappointing marriage, she found her true direction in life in her mid-30s. In Zurich for medical treatment, she suffered a psychological crisis and an analyst from the CG Jung Institute was brought to see her, not only relieving her panic but inspiring a new passion. In analysis with Jolande Jacobi, one of Jung's close followers, Molly attended courses at the institute, though with no thought of becoming an analyst herself. Before leaving Zurich she was invited to lunch with the renowned analysts Marie-Louise von Franz and Barbara Hannah, whose parting gift was to tell her she was "one of them".

Life was rudely interrupted in 1952 by Gamal Abdel Nasser's coup d'etat, when Molly's family was expelled from Egypt and their property seized. As a refugee in London, she took whatever work she could find to support herself and her ageing parents, teaching French, doing market research and entertaining African diplomats for the Foreign Office.

Impressed by her subtle relationship skills, established analysts began sending difficult patients to learn cookery with her as a form of therapy. Gradually she began to take on patients herself, and she was awarded a diploma by the Association of Jungian Analysts.

Molly became a leading figure in the Analytical Psychology Club of London – editing its journal, Harvest – and in the Guild of Pastoral Psychology. She co-founded the Sesame drama and movement therapy training, set up a support group for rabbis' spouses, and involved herself in an interfaith group of Jews and Muslims. In 1984 she created a programme of lectures and seminars on Jungian psychology which attracted an enthusiastic response and became the basis of a new Jungian school, the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists.

Molly was known for her great delicacy of feeling, her profound understanding of the psyche and her seminars on the psychology of alchemy. She loved to create settings where relationship could blossom, hosting tea parties and Egyptian lunches in her tiny flat for colleagues, students and friends.